· Private foundation
Russ & Helen Meyer Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $263k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS | $250,000 |
| GRANDVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH CHILDREN'S | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| WICHITA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| KANSAS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SG COUNTY | $25,000 |
| SIMPLY HYGIENE | $25,000 |
| THE LORD'S DINER | $25,000 |
| WICHITA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER | $12,500 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| MUSIC THEATRE WICHITA | $10,000 |
| GUADALUPE CLINIC | $10,000 |
| TOP EARLY LEARNING CENTERS | $10,000 |
| LEAGUE 42 | $10,000 |
| THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER WICHITA | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $148k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
35 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $133k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC4× · 2022–2025 · $803k · revenue +17%
- WCWICHITA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $180k · revenue +46%
- GCGuadalupe Clinic Inc4× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +103%
Funded once
- EEMPOWERone grant, 2024 · $30k
- APARNOLD PALMER EDUCATION FUNDone grant, 2022 · $20k
- TWTHE WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOMEone grant, 2023 · $14k · revenue -6%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
To drive economic growth and community advancement in the wichita region.
On behalf of the university of kansas school of medicine-wichita, wcgme administers the graduate medical education program for resident physicians in the city of wichita, kansas. wcgme's involvement in graduate medical education in wichita…
To create, maintain, and enhance relationships among wichita state university alumni, current and prospective students, faculty, staff, and friends in order to foster loyalty, interest, and support for the university and for one another.
The mission of Downtown Wichita is to cultivate opportunities that revitalize and enhance Wichita's urban core.
We build lifelong relationships that strengthen the university of kansas and the legacy of excellence embodied by its students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends.
To engage in grant making to medical educational organizations and related charitable activities in the area of eye disease and vision disorder, and the care and treatment thereof.
Wplf seeks private charitable support to create young readers, ensure digital inclusion, and provide equitable access to information. wplf's sole purpose is to create a margin of excellence at wichita public library.
The wichita foundation invests in people and ideas to spark change, and envisions a place where all wichitans thrive and belong. as community conveners, the foundation leads with courage, grows equitable relationships, ignites philanthropy…
The mission of Wichita Christian School is to provide a quality education in a Christian environment that inspires hearts, minds, and souls for successful living.
The foundation is organized to secure gifts of money or property in efforts of advancing education and/or research; therefore, providing assistance in furthering the mission of kansas wesleyan university.
Provide a classical and biblically-based education to young people in elementary and secondary grade levels.
How this is measured
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 71 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WICHITA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Guadalupe Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds ENVISION INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS HUMANE SOCIETY OF WICHITA KANSAS ↗
- Who funds Kansas Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds SIMPLY HYGIENE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC THEATRE WICHITA ↗
- Who funds KANSAS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE KANSAS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE 42 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds DOC'S FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds EAA AVIATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BUTLER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Berry Foundation Inc · Ima Foundation · Goebel Family-Star Lumber Charitable Trust · Wichita Foundation · Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Mann Family Foundation · Kansas Health Foundation · Servant Foundation · Daniel J Taylor Family Charitable Foundation · Lattner Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Russ & Helen Meyer Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Russ & Helen Meyer Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Williams College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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